Dozens of protesters across Lebanon took to the streets for another round of demonstrations in opposition to government incompetence in handling hyperinflation and soaring fuel prices. Crowds blocked roads, placing barricades and burning tires to stop traffic.
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Hundreds of protesters in Santiago gathered for a demonstration demanding the release of the political prisoners of Chile’s social uprising that began in 2019, some of which have been detained for over a year. Police responded with extreme repression, arriving in the dozens with tear gas and armored vehicles, attacking street medics, and making several brutal arrests.
Hundreds of Chileans gathered in Antofagasta to demand the immediate release of all political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising that began in 2019 in Chile and still holds strong after more than a year. Clashes with police escalated throughout the day and ended with flames on the cities of the streets of Antofagasta after Carabineros attempted to deploy chemically tainted water cannons on protesters.
Youth in Beirut burned barricades and cut off the ring bridge to demand an improvement in living conditions, following the collapse of Lebanon’s economy as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and warehouse explosion that decimated the country’s capital in August.
Hundreds of protesters in Thessaloniki marched in solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas, carrying banners in solidarity with the 17 November political prisoner and demanding the government accept his request to return him to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.